Animal-head.



,PATBN'IED OCT. 2, 1906. B. COHEN. ANIMAL HEAD.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 24, 1906.A

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

1 Application filed April 24, 1906. Serial No. 313,462.

Patented Oct. 2, 1906.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, BERNARD COHEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Animal-Head, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to furs; and its object is to provide a new and improved animalhead for boas and other fur garments, fur rugs, and other fur articles, and arranged to properly display the head and still render the same flexible, to allow of conveniently placing the head-filling in position in the skin, and to draw the skin into place to give the proper shape to the head and to provide a fasteningjaw for clamping the head to a part of the garment of which the head is a part.

The invention consists of -novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a plan view of the improvement as applied to a fur boa. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of the improvement. Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of the clamping device. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the head-filling, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the temporary sustaining-block for the head-filling.

The animal-head A of a boa or other fur garment A is provided with a filling B, made of rubber and having a snout portion B and a hollow skull portion B2 opened at the bottom and at the rear end, the snout portion having a central longitudinal rib on its upper face, as plainly -illustrated in the drawings. This filling B is placed in position on the inner face of the skin of the head A, and the latter is then fashioned over the said filling B, so as to give a shape to the head A corresponding to the filling B, the latter resembling as near as possible the head and snout portion of the animal. When fashioning the skin over the filling B, the skin is sufficiently wet to allow proper drawing of the skin and fashioning the the same corresponding to the contour or outer surface of the filling B, and then the side edges of the skin are fastened together at the bottom of the filling B, and for this purpose pins orthe like are usually employed, passing through the edges of the skin and into a block B3, made of cork and temporarily placed into the hollow skull portion B2 of the filling B. Thus by the arrangement described the pins are securely held in place to hold the skin tight until the latter is dried on the filling B to retain its shape over the filling. The edges of the skin are then sewed together in the usual manner, and then the pins, as well as the block B3, are withdrawn to leave the filling B in position in the head A', it being, however, expressly understood that this filling B forms a mold for the skin of the head A.

The forward end of the block B3 is provided at the bottom with an offset B4, fitting a corresponding recess B5 in the bottom of the snout portion B/ to hold the block B3 against movement while in place in the filling B. After the block B3 has been withdrawn from the filling B it is evident that the snout portion of the animals head is comparatively solid, while the skull portion thereof is flexible, owing to the hollow skull portion B2 of the lling B.

The head A is preferably provided with a clamping device for fastening the head to another part of the garment, as indicated in Fig. l, and for this pur ose a lower jaw C is provided comprising c amping members C C2, preferably made of metal and pivotally connected with each other at C3 and pressed on by a spring D to hold the forward ends of the members C C2 normally in a closed position. The upper member C2 of the jaw C extends with its forward end between the bottom of the head-skin and the bottom of the filling B, and this forward end is fastened into position on the skin, preferably by cement E or other suitable binding substance.

The rear end of the upper member C2 is attached by stitches F or the like to the top of the skin immediately in the rear of the head A as plainly indicated in Fig. 2. Thelower member C of the jaw C is completely covered with fur G, so that the entire head of the animal, including the jaw, appears as natural as possible. At the same time the operator by pressing the rear end of the lower member C opens the jaw C to engage the forward ends of the members C C2 with another part of the garment A, as indicated in Fig. 1.

. The animals head is provided with the usual eyes fastened in place by wires I-I or other means extending through the head- IIO skin and the filling B to the inside of the hollow skull portion B2, as .plainly indicated .in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patente 1 1. An animal-head, comprising a head of a fur skin, and a form of softrubbel'. over Which the skin is fashioned, said form com- IO bottom ,and a snout portion.,

2.-, An animal ,head,.comprising a headpf; a skin, l and a form. ,of ,soft rubber over which the. skint -is .fashioned ,said form come Erasing a hollow skull-.portionopen at,-the.v

ottornand a. snoutlportionhavng a central i longitudinal rib, on-,itsupper face.

3. animal-head, comprising a head of. a fuir` skin, a formy over which the skin is.fas h.-,. ioned` and. having a skull ortion and a snout: portion, andaseparate ower clamping-,jawV comprising.- a .pair `ofpiyotedv and... springe. pressedv clamping f members, ,ofV .which` the.V upper member has its forward end extending behweenthe *bottom` of the form, andHthe bottom of. `the, skin, ythe rear end of the? saidlf upper, member; being scoured to. the-skim Linc rear o f, the ,f erm,l

4. yAn, animal,-headi, comprising thev headw prising a hollow skullpportionqopen at thelanda separate -lower. clamping-jaw comprising a pair ofl ivoted- Spring-pressed clamping members o which the upper member has its forward end extending between 3 5 the'bottom of the rubber form and the bottomof the skin, the rear end of thesaid u permembel#beingA secured to the top of tfie skin in the rear of the said form.

5. An animal-head,.comprising the vheadt4o of.afur.skin, aformfor thefsame made.;,of rubber. and; ovenwhichfthe skin is fashioned,

and a separate` lowerf clamping-jaw comprising ay pair. of` iyoted.- springfpressed clamping. membersl ot whichv the upperfmeme 45 ber has its forward end eXtending, ./betweenf. the bottom of the rubber form; anidgtheboiae tom ofr thefskin, the-.rearend .of .thesaid lu per. ymember--beinggsecured:to lthe` to. ..of tfiez skin in the ,rear of thesaid form,a1.1d; t e-lowen; 5o member being', fur 1-,coVeredand i extending ,A outside l of thjesk-in alongi theibofttom thereof. Intestimony, whereofu. I i have, signed my` name te this.` specii'catiouin: thel .presence .of two, subscribing Witnesses. A

BERNARD COHEN: 

